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Ty's Take The news out of the valley this week runs the full spectrum—relief that a missing woman's been found safe, word that two papers are joining forces to cover more ground, and the usual reminders that we're living between bigger forces that
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Ty's Take The El Pomar Foundation's grant to a Saguache County outfit is the kind of news that doesn't make anybody's blood pressure spike, but it's worth noticing anyway—these Colorado Springs foundations have long memories about the San Luis
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Ty's Take Politics in a military town runs different than most places—you've got federal workers, career officers, contractors, and ranchers all trying to figure out where their bread comes from, and they don't always agree on who gets to make those calls. Deb
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Ty's Take You see a city council willing to ask voters to fund themselves a little better, a nonprofit landing real money to do the work that keeps this county stitched together, and somewhere in the same news cycle, a locked-out workforce at Leonardo DRS heading into week
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Ty's Take The water cupboard keeps getting emptier, and nobody's really talking about what happens when the tourists show up to soak in the hot springs while the farmers downstream can't fill their ditches. Elephant Butte's been dropping for years—everybody knows
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Ty's Take The Blues Fest expanding into a car show tells you something about Silver City right now—we're pulling in crowds any way we can, and nobody's too precious about mixing their culture. But what's harder to square is the timing:
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Ty's Take The Wyoming side of the Beartooth stays locked up a little longer this spring, which means another week or two before the high country really opens up to the tourists and the folks who live for those first runs through the passes. It's the
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of trust that gets broken when a cop's credibility starts cracking in a small town—not just between that officer and the public, but in the whole system people depend on when things go sideways. Cases getting dismissed
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Ty's Take There's something worth paying attention to in what people do with their hands when the world gets too loud. The Bulletin's piece on local artists finding their way back to creative work—painting, pottery, whatever it is that makes them lose track
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Ty's Take Memorial Day weekend's looking like a gift—sunshine instead of the rain they were calling for, which means the lake's about to get crowded in the best way possible. But here's the thing: before you fire up the boat and
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Ty's Take Water rights and political ambition don't usually move the needle up here in Rio Arriba, but when Doug Turner starts talking governor's race, folks north of Española are listening—not because anyone's ready to pack him off to Santa Fe,
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Ty's Take That data center north of town is going to remake how we think about Billings' future, and not in the way most of us expected. We've spent decades as an energy town—oil refining, coal, the backbone industries—and suddenly we're